Perversion the Social Relation

22o IndexBrooks, Peter, 190-92,198-99, 201Buchet, André, 15e n.22Burroughs, W. S., 9-11,15-36; "cutin/cut-up"technique in writing of, 30,37 n.14; virus/vampire metaphors of,24-29Butler, Judith, 16Calasso, Roberto, 16capitalism: Burroughs's vision of, 20-24;and value, 16Carrey, Jim, 113Casanova, Giacomo, 83-90castration: alienation/separation conceptsand, 49-53; Casanova's discussion of,83-87; fetishism and fear of, 94-95,m n.u; Freudian theory concerning,41-42,44-45, 61 n.9; Gilles de Raisphenomenon and, 138,15e n.17; HopiKatcina rituals and, 74-76; Lacanianlink with sexuality and, 57,67 n.47cathexis: childhood perversion and, 3-4;ego and, 200; Gilles de Rais phenomenonand, 145-46; moral law and,55-56Causality and the Law, 198childhood: Burroughs's vision of, 20-24child molestation: Gilles de Rais phenomenonin context of, 134-42,155n.uChomsky, Noam, 36 n.6Christianity: limits of, in Confessions ofNat Turner, 170-84; spectacle of perversionin, 128-33,154 n.6. See alsoInquisition; religiondues of the Red Night, 9-11,19-36Civilization and Its Discontents, 30Cobain, Kurt, 15Coen, Ethan, 7Coen, Joel, 7Cohen, Leonard, 96community: consent to perversion in,142-53; inoperative in, 13-14; limitsof homo-ness in, 170-84; rejection ofhomosexuality and, 160-84Confessions of Nat Turner, The, 12,159-84Conrad, Joseph, 21contamination: perversion as, 189-208Copjec, Joan, 154 n.5,156 n.21,157 n.23,197-99, ^03-8Corrillaut, Etienne, 154 n.7Craon, Jean de, 126,135,137-38,156 n.17criminality: religious forgiveness and,149-52; sociohistorical context for,136-42,155 n.16Critique of Dialectical Reason, 122cultural norms: Burroughs's discussion of,25-29; jouissance and, 45,63 n.19; originsof perversion and, 94-110; serialkillers in context of, 134-42,155 n.u"Cutting Up," 198cynical reasoning: disavowal and, inn.13; Zizek's discussion of, 18-19, 36nn.4-5Dahmer, Jeffrey, 155 n.udaughters: maternal jouissance and,46-48,66 n.25death drive: Freudian theory of, 189-90Deleuze, Gilles, 113,117-18,121-22DeLillo, Don, 12, 28-29,189-208de Malestroit, Jean, 128-29,158 n.32démystification: disavowal of belief and,10; Hopi Katcina rituals and, 75-76Derrida, Jacques, 17Descartes, Rene: on beliefs, 78-79; onstupid obedience, 19desire: neurosis and, 55Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of MentalDisorders, 60 n.2Diderot, Denis, 114-15Dien Bien Phu, 78Diken, Bulent, 121Dillon, Matt, 15Dirty Harry, 124 n.idisavowal (Verleugnung): beliefs and, 69-